There were certain things that the so called hyper and demented blond could not take. He did not like it when someone told him that he was good for nothing; he had been denied any kind of compassion in his early years until a very worried psychologist met him and gave all of his love to him just like father would to his son, so his dehydration of love in his early years resulted in him being very, very stubborn. Whenever someone told him he couldn't accomplish a certain task he would hurl himself and do the task with the best he had, and the weird thing was that he would. Of course there were things he could not get, like the affection and love of Sakura Haruno but in the end they became best buddies something which turned out better than being lovers. He also wasn't fond of 'bastards' he would address them (even though he had many friends who fit the category, anyway moving on…), he couldn't understand why someone would want be a prick and stay a prick. For a long time he asked his other best friend Neji "What is so cool about being a bastard?" but so far he never got an answer other than a glare that offers him an agonizing death and a nice corner of a grave. Other things he did not like were being called a girl, being denied of his ramen and so on and on. And if there was something he loathed, it was someone bullying a child. Which brings us to the beginning of this blonde's dramatically life changing situation.
His day started like any other day, he being an unemployed masters student woke up at 10 AM feeling happy that it was weekend. He slowly got out of his bed trying to gouge his eyes off, murmuring how sleepy he was. After he took his morning shower he made himself ramen and ate the ramen praising the ramen god for the delicious substance in his mouth. He was content with his life until he realized that there was no milk left.
The blond looked to the fridge blankly. He remembered that yesterday milk in all of its glory was bought by him and again was hidden by him so that his feral roommate Kiba would not find and devour this precious liquid leaving him none at all. He glared and the spot where the milk was supposed to be right after he squealed in shock.
"That dog loving milk thief." He growled in anger "How can he? I mean he knows I need milk in the morning."
Naruto Uzumaki, the blond as you guessed, kicked the closest thing to him. His eyes widened when he heard a bowl being drifted pouring all of the liquids inside it. If Naruto was calm until that horrendous second, and he was not, seeing his milk poured on the floor from Akamaru's bowl was the last blow to him. Naruto fell on his knees and stared at the white liquid murmuring "Nandattebayo?" (why in Japanese with Naruto's accent). His head bumped into the fridge and he slowly turned his gaze to the note place on the fridge.
Yo Naruto,
How are you man? I haven't seen you for one day you know.
Oh, by the way I had to give Akamaru your milk.
And that's all I guess. You can buy one from the market you know; probably you are acting like a drama queen on the floor crying after your milk and stuff.
Toughen up and go buy milk.
Kiba the Wise
Naruto stared at the note and stared and stared until his eyes landed on the word 'drama queen' for the fifth time.
"How… HOW can he?" Naruto wailed like a banshee "You smartass… oh, but you will regret the day you stole my milk to give it to a dog." Naruto smiled devilishly as he mixed some orange soda with Kiba's favorite drink; coke. He then placed the coke and took some napkins to clean the floor.
Now normally Naruto would never go to the market at… 10:48 in the morning especially on a nice and peaceful Saturday but since he had no milk and he had nothing else to do he got dressed, leaving the house with the key in his hand.
The market was owned by some old couple; nearly all of the customers were constants. Naruto hummed as he entered the market, he waved to the cashier Menma (who was another of his precious people). Menma smiled serenely and waved back while he was handing the money to the customer in front of him.
Naruto continued on humming as he led himself to the milk rayon. There he stood amazed, who knew there could be so many varieties of milk he wondered. For a reason Naruto was more ahem intrigued of the daily occurrences. He knew all of the milk's sold here, hell he even tasted most of them, not the soy milk eww he didn't even want to know how one would create that (1), but still he was always mesmerized by the variety of milk. Unknown to him it was. 11.13 PM.
"Are you going to stare at the milk rayon any longer?" a cold and arrogant voice inquired.
Naruto jumped and bit his lip as the voice rudely kicked him out of his train of thought concerning the varieties of milk. He turned his head to look at the rude man and his breathing stopped.
"Why are you looking at me like that dobe?" the rude one insisted.
Naruto's eyes widened in shock.
"Can't you at least act polite teme!" he yelled indignantly pointing his finger at the offender.
The offender's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Maybe if you were considerate enough to move out of my way I would act a lot nicer dobe." He said with a very evil smirk on his smug face. "I don't understand why an adult like you would need milk… Oh I actually do," he stopped as if he was thinking "you are an idiot." He deadpanned.
Naruto was about to scream but he shut himself. You see his major was psychology and it wouldn't look nice in his CV if it was written that he attacked a child. The blond man moved to the left and he nearly plucked all of his hair. The child, who looked like he was only 8 years old made a "Hnn." sound as he stood before the rayon almost immediately picking a milk cartoon.
"Bastard…" Naruto mumbled.
The boy turned to look at Naruto and again smirked like he was the son of the devil.
"Tsk, tsk. Watch your mouth dobe."
Naruto's eyes were not wide anymore they were looked protruding.
"You little!" (2)
But Naruto would never know what he himself was going to say because a loud voice stopped him, the boy and the whole customers in the market. A gunshot.
"This is a robbery folks!" A male voice shouted.
Naruto's eyes narrowed as he turned to look at the thug. The thug looked like he was a bandaged ape, holding a very fatal gun in his hand, which pointed to Menma. Menma's light colored eyes were pinned to the gun.
Naruto heard a slight gasp from the devil's son, the blond acted without thinking as he pulled the boy from his wrist to hide the boy behind himself. The boy did not struggle as if he understood the situation. Naruto's eyes searched through the people inside the market. One bonus of studying psychology was that one could understand most of the people's facial expressions, and Naruto did not believe that the ape man was alone; he couldn't be that idiot. He did not have to actually analyze as he found the second thug, a boyish looking man with brown spiked hair holding another gun albeit a smaller one. He then realized that the boyish thug was looking to the crowd, very concentrated.
His eyes stopped on a woman with long dark brown hair, walking jauntily but stealthily, who was looking at him. His breath stopped, this woman was acting like she was scared but her eyes were very determined, calm and she didn't look like she was determined to get out of here alive, her gaze was passing through him as if she was searching for something.
She slowly started to walk to his direction never taking her eyes off the blond. Naruto shakily took a breath as he came to his senses. The ape man was yelling about something as the boyish thug was holding his gun in a threatening posture. And probably the third thug, the brunette was walking to him.
"Zaku." She spoke in a calm and cold tone.
The boyish thug smirked. "Okay."
The ape man held Menma and threw him to the customers, now pointing his gun to them as Zaku, boyish thug, slid towards the brunette.
Naruto felt the small bastard's wrist tense.
The brunette was right in front of him now; she seemed as if she was calculating his potential. She then relaxed visibly.
"Sasuke, don't hide." She muttered loud enough for both Naruto and the boy to hear but quietly so that the others did not hear.
Naruto growled.
Zaku reached to them, grinning creepily.
"So we will have to kill two eh Kin?"
"Shut up idiot." She hissed. "If you hand over the kid we won't have to kill you."
Naruto heard a scream from the crowded side. However he did not sway his eyes from the two dangerous and shady people in front of him.
"No." he said simply and heard the devil, Sasuke he reminded himself, gasp again.
Kin rolled her eyes.
"Great a heroic moron." Zaku commented and pointed his gun to Naruto. "Buh-bye her –"
Naruto was no wrestler, or martial artist. But in his early days he had taken some wing tsun courses and he was not a sissy when it came to hand to hand combats. Reflexively his left hand clasped around the gun wielding hand of Zaku and turned it upwards while his right hand landed a very hard fist right to the man's face. Zaku fired the gun in a useless attempt but the gun was still pointed at nobody.
Kin suddenly jumped forward and grabbed the wrist of Zaku which Naruto was holding. Naruto growled and tried to shake the two thugs off.
Said task was not easy even if one of them was a girl.
"The Uchiha family will hunt you down for trying to assassinate me in such a foolish and not to forget weak way." The demon spawn, no Sasuke said coolly.
Still struggling Kin gritted out the words.
"They will never know you stupid brat."
Naruto forcefully threw the girl and kicked the guy in the guts; the gun flew over thankfully to his side...
"What the hell are you talking about?!" He asked very politely.
Kin smirked.
"That boy belongs to a dangerous group, for the good of the people we have to eliminate him…" Her voice was determined, eyes studying the blond.
Naruto looked to the boy who was now standing near him.
"But he is just a scrawny kid."
The said scrawny kid leaned over and took the gun.
"Silencer? And short distance… You guys are really idiots. What kind of thug would use this kind of guns?" He scoffed while pointing the gun towards one of them.
"Hey kiddo, I don't think that you should mess around…"
Sasuke looked at him unfazed.
"… with that kind of things." Naruto gulped who thought that a small brat like him could look menacing.
"And what let them kill me, dobe?" The boy asked with one eyebrow raised.
Kin interfered.
"You deserve to die… Murderer."
Naruto glanced over her, she seemed honest but Naruto was beyond these kinds of charades. While she was talking she seemed almost like she was re-reading a script and also the fact that an eight year old boy could not be a murderer, at least he hoped not. The Uchiha family on the other hand was a well known family and it was famous for its wealth. The infamous gossip about them was that they had some shady dealings going around. Naruto locked his gaze with Kin, even if the kids family were full of bastards, like him a part of his conscience murmured, no eight year old deserved to die.
"You should stop lying; I am not an idiot you know." Naruto said softly "He is just a kid what kind of monster are you to even think seriously of killing him. Even if you are blaming his family for anything it is unforgivable for you to attack a brat."
"Oi! What's taking so long losers?" The man at who was pointing his gun to the crowd in the market.
Naruto blinked as the woman called Kin pointed her bag towards Sasuke and without thinking he leapt over the boy.
A gun shot was heard as Naruto felt the bullet piercing his body. As he fell down losing consciousness he heard another gun shot. Mumbling to himself (3) he couldn't even panic as he finally was drowned in darkness.
(1)No offense meant I think soy milk is neat… I just couldn't think that Naruto would appreciate soy milk.
(2)Homer Simpson need I say more.
(3)"Stupid Kiba for stealing my milk… Stupid bastard… Idiotic thugs." But these mumbles were unheard in the middle of gun shots.
oldAN: Well this is my first attempt on a fanfic So I hope that you enjoyed it. I am not a good updater for that I apologize beforehand.
AN: Well after letting this fic stay incomplete for such a long time, and contemplating on whether I should erase or continue it, it seems İtaNaru won, so I will try to edit the existing 4 chapters and try to finish it. Which means, even more unstable updating is on the way.